[heady blunts]

von maybe we could duplicate some posts from my thread. i think post #1 is a pretty complete tutorial. oh and i vote for the tea sticky to stay on the front page .

stankie- would you mind?

mm- thanks!

dm- there's a link to a tutorial to build that exact DIY vortex brewer in the picture on microbeorganics.com. i am thinking of building one too but i'll probably only use one or two airlifts to make clean up easier.

here we go: https://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/turbo-vortex.htm

[jaykush]

did u make the vortex or other design? & care to PM me on the details. If all goes well, i will likely get a new brewer built sometime in april.

ive just set them up as quick brewers for other people. didnt take the time to do the vortex just like a conebottom tank mimic. they worked great.

[jaykush]

did u make the vortex or other design? & care to PM me on the details. If all goes well, i will likely get a new brewer built sometime in april.

ive just set them up as quick brewers for other people. didnt take the time to do the vortex just like a conebottom tank mimic. they worked great.

[DARC MIND]

thnx heady
ive came across that link before & had wanted to build one for sometime but i never got around to it.didnt really like the design

jay,that is exactly what i wanted to do
simply use the cone jug as the brewer & def take advantage of the bottom to connect a valve of some sort..

any who
hands down one of the best ACT threads ive ever come across
the info & examples shared in these first few pages are worth a million

[Microbeman]

Dark: You can make a nice little brewer by eliminating three of the riser pipes in that design. IMO better than the 'magic' created by a vortex.

Originally Posted by heady blunts

stankie- would you mind?

No I don't care.

They will be merged soon. I sent the message to OP.

V

[heady blunts]

Originally Posted by Microbeman

Dark: You can make a nice little brewer by eliminating three of the riser pipes in that design. IMO better than the 'magic' created by a vortex.

i want to do that (i think you suggested the same to me way back when). less to clean/break.

methinks if you angle the lift so that the water shoots not at the center, but off to the side, you could get a vortex going if you help initiate with a little hand stirring.

make sure you're trying to get it going the same direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) as your sinks drain.

[Scrappy4]

Hey guys, I'm in the middle of trying to make an air lift pump for returning tea into a ten gallon cone shaped tank. The outlet on the bottom of the tank is 1 1/4, so with 1 1/4 pvc pipe, I T'd off the bottom, one leg going to a drain valve, and one leg clearing the tank and then up and over returning into the tank.

I am using a super luft air pump @ 18W, 3 psi, 1.34 cf per minute. We tried piping the air into the up and over leg via a bushing with a barbed fitting and no diffuser. We are using a T instead of an elbow on the up pipe, so we can use a barbed bushing to supply air to the stand pipe. The air alone would not push the water high enough on the side piping to return it to the tank. Then we tried using a 8 inch piece of pvc for a diffuser with several thin cuts from a thin jig saw in the pvc that was capped. Still the water did not rise enough to return it to the tank, then we made the diffuser pvc piece longer so it released the air higher in the up and over pipe.
Still not enough to force the water to the top of the side pipe and back into the tank. We tried different water levels without success.

I'm not sure where we are fouling up. Too small of pump? better diffuser? Air leaks ? (nothing is glued yet)
Sorry no pics I'm working with a friend on two of them, and they are at his house. Any ideas would be appreciated.......scrappy

[RipVanWeed]

Hey Scrap,

Pictures would be better fo sho.

Anyway, if I'm following your description right it sound like the problem may be that your lift is not vertical. If your teeing off from the bottom of the tank you must be running part of the lift at an angle less than straight up, won't work, bubbles rise to the upper side of angled pipe and passes all the water.

The lift needs to rise straight up so the water will get trapped on top of bubbles and be pushed straight up.

I fabbed mine like this.



Air diffuser runs on it's own pump. Cut slots in the bottom of the octogon with the thinnest Dremel cutting wheel. Delivers air to the perimeter at the bottom.



Then I fashioned this manifold for the bottom of the lift. Four 1/8" elbows delivering air and cutouts to allow water above the air outlets







It lifts more than 1.5 gpm of water from the bottom of the bucket!



Respect,